Adding subtitle tracks to AVI or QT movies

Hi,
I have a video in .avi format, with an associated .srt subtitle file. I can play the two together using VLC, however I'd like to burn the subtitles to the video. I've seen some explanations for how to do this, however they all require programs that seem to be for people much more involved in manipulating audio and video - I'm just looking for a easy wa to add subtitles. Any ideas on where I could find this? I don't have QT Pro, however I am able to convert the avi files to QT movie files, using Divx Doctor.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
nanoo

Actually, I've been playing around with the new Closed Caption Importer component
http://developer.apple.com/samplecode/ClosedCaptionImporter/index.html
I like the look of it and it just needs to be fleshed out to be more user friendly for the creation of captions, but it's following a standard that allows the captions to be inside the movie file. (Some of the tools I've found convert .scc to .srt.. with QuickTime able to read the .scc, it should make it easier)
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